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JANUARY 24, 2020
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t seems like just yesterday we Breakthroughs during the decade were in The Roaring Twenties, include the discoveries of insulin yet here we are — boom! — right and penicillin. Vitamins A, B, C, back in the Twenties again. What D, E and K and various subtypes label might our decade of twenof each were discovered during the ty-something years garner before it’s 1920s, along with their crucial role all over? in maintaining health. Huge strides We have no crystal ball here at were made toward conquering our luxurious Medical Examiner such scourges as pellagra, scarlet world headquarters, but we can look fever, measles, hookworm, syphilis back. In the grand scheme of things and tuberculosis. Uncovering their one hundred years is a tiny blip in causes led to vaccines that preventthe stream of time, and because of ed measles, diphtheria and tuberthat the people of those Twenties culosis among up to 98% of those were not really very different from who received the newly developed us: they were dazzled by an explovaccines. R.L. Kahn devised a new sion of exciting new technologies. and more accurate test for syphilis. Nothing seemed beyond man’s abil- George Papanicolaou, a Greekity to conquer with a suitable mixborn physician who had moved to ture of brawn and brains, and the the U.S., discovered a more effective evidence was everywhere. Horses test for cervical cancer in 1923. It and buggies were relics of the past. became known as the Pap smear. Shiny new black cars were every Medical tools we view as ordinary where. Skyscrapers were reaching today were also first seen during the previously unimaginable heights. Roaring Twenties. The 1924 Nobel Things were definitely humming. Prize in Medicine was awarded to There was no denying that they Willem Einthoven of the Netherlands were living in modern times. for his development of the electro Medicine did not escape the Roar- cardiogram. ing Twenties’ march of progress. Please see ROARING TWENTIES page 16
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